Irina Ponarovskaya: “I am a crazy grandmother, mother and mother-in-law!”

– Irina, with what mood do you approach the anniversary?

– How difficult it is for me to answer this question is simply unbelievable. How do you think, with what mood such a figure is met? With normal, human, generally accepted …

– I understand that you decided to refuse banquets that your colleagues love so much?

– Yes. I don’t really like festivities in my honor, so I decided to spend this day on stage. I will have a concert in St. Petersburg, where I now live. I will spend two hours with my audience, who are still willing to buy tickets for my performances.

– You returned to the stage after “ten years of silence”. What has changed in show business in your absence?

“Everything has changed, absolutely everything. And I, as a first-grader, am now looking at all this and learning. I can’t say that I absorb everything. But I fit into what I need to fit into. I’m not sure that I need to completely abandon everything that I have gone through. The experience of my stage life comes in handy in today’s show business, believe me. But I have to learn a lot, take into account and learn something.

– What did you learn, for example, in the show “Mask”?

– “The Mask” is an absolutely wonderful story, a fairy tale, which, it seems to me, all artists love. I didn’t play with dolls as a child, I became an adult very early. Therefore, I perceived my participation as a fabulous journey. I did not even hope that so many programs would last there! But nevertheless, I was very interested. Everything was honest and within the framework of today’s time.

– Everyone was very surprised at your departure from the stage. You left in English, although there was everything: concerts, tours, and fans …

I left and have never regretted it. I needed quiet time. At some point, I realized that fatigue had accumulated. moral fatigue. I remember that I lived in Estonia completely alone for two years. Only in the summer my relatives came to visit me. And this time of silence helped me a lot, because at that moment I had the opportunity to disconnect from everything. I needed silent days to understand something about myself, to rethink. Yes, it took me ten years.

Your return has been spectacular. What is the joint work with Maxim Fadeev worth. Should we expect continuation?

– As far as I know, Maxim Fadeev today is busy with a little other things, not show business. Although, of course, he performs occasionally. But more focused on other things that you better ask him about. Because I have no right to discuss it.

– Everyone else noticed that after your return you fell in love with duets, which you didn’t please so often before!

– You know, for some reason I always thought that duet songs were lost material. Because the artists are leaving, performing in different places. And if you do a duet, especially if it turns out beautiful, then you want to sing it from concert to concert. And it doesn’t work. It turns out to show only on some very rare shooting: in a spark or a festive program. Those duets that I developed after my return were sung to my songs. Alexey Chumakov, Zara, Dimochka Bilan, Natasha Koroleva, Alsu, Dima Malikov performed them wonderfully with me … They seemed to have my songs not bad and there was a desire to sing a duet with me. As for the future, I do not foresee duets. I don’t get any suggestions for this.

– You have the image of a strong woman. Do you consider yourself to be one?

– Lord have mercy. Do you know why women become strong? Because they are really weak. Only a weak person can become strong. You can’t be born strong. Strength is experience. Strength is a moment of dignity, a moment of responsibility. If this looks like strength in a feminine presentation, then it is quite possible that I have become strong.

Do you have moments of weakness? Does it happen that Irina Ponarovskaya cries?

– Certainly.

– Because of which?

– I can cry because of any nonsense, like every woman. I am strong, and weak, and gentle … I can also be sharp. We are all ambiguous people. If I knew what a strong woman is… I live as I live. I stuff bumps on my head, on my experience and on my mistakes …

– What about your family?

– This should be asked from members of my family: my son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren. I am very loving, I can say that for sure. Wanting to communicate with them all the time. Although now it happens to a lesser extent, because we live in different cities. I am in St. Petersburg, and they are in Moscow. But no matter how much I visit Moscow, I always visit them. Above all, we always spend the summer together. I may be a little crazy grandmother, mother and mother-in-law … But I love my family very much. In general, I believe that the most important thing in life is family!

– Grandchildren already know that their grandmother is a star, a popular singer!

Of course they all know what I sing. An amazing thing happened a few years ago. My grandson was four and a half years old when I returned from the photo shoot. He looked at me and asked: “Grandma, where did you come from so beautiful?”. I told him that I was at the photo shoot, described the whole process. He looked at me and said: “What a funny profession you have. And are you still getting paid for this?” (laughs).

– Those moments when you spend time with children, and there is absolute happiness for you?

– Certainly. Happiness is my family. When the grandchildren run to me along the platform after a long separation and shout: “Granny!”. For me, this is happiness! But also happiness for me is when the sun shines on the street. When I realize that people come to my concerts. For me, this is also happiness. I am infinitely grateful to my audience for deserving their attention. I really hope that at the anniversary concert, which, by the way, will not be much different from the usual one, they will receive a share of my love and give me a share of their love.

– What is Irina Ponarovskaya dreaming about now?

– About peace. But not in the sense that I need to sit on the couch or lie in bed. I dream of universal peace, which left us a long time ago. Speed, haste, haste, struggle, enmity around – these are the things that give rise to great anxiety and anxiety in me. I want to get rid of all this and be in that very peace that makes it possible to create, to give people my love. Although, you know, in the unrest in which we live now, it is even more valuable to give love to people and not stop opening your heart!